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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 47 minutes ago

.... So oracle has been pretty much a straight and slow climb in valuation since 2002.

They had a significant and fast "spike" for pretty much the year of 2025 and then dropped back down to that same slow climb trend (if you ignore the 2025 spike, their chart would look the same as it has for the past 20 years of mostly slow upwards momentum).

Upon the news today, their stock went up 6%.

In other words, like most things shown to you, you've been presented with cherry picked data points to align with the agenda that the presenter wants you to have.

As a side note, I wish about 95% of all ai would burn to the ground, along with Oracle.

[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 50 minutes ago

Oracle's software is massively used to count money. Now there's AI in there. The AI is terrible at counting.

We are about to experience the whole new dimension of fuuuuuuuck.

[–] AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 5 points 1 hour ago

Oh so that's why they've suddenly been arrassing my company for license money

[–] Hotzmon@fedinsfw.app 14 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Oracle has been dying company for last 20 years, their horrible db licensing and cash cow strategy has ensured it.

[–] LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 1 points 34 minutes ago

Get wrecked Ellison

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

I know someone who works there who’s a huge lazy asshole I hope he got laid off

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago

There goes AI getting rid of jobs.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago

Mad props to whoever shorted back in September.

[–] jaredwhite@humansare.social 36 points 4 hours ago

If we're really super lucky the Paramount/WB merger falls apart because Daddy's shiny money just ain't there no more.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 71 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Larry Ellison is a MAGA fuckwad

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 6 points 57 minutes ago

That's good to know, but I don't really need another reason to hate Oracle. I've been doing this for years and years.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 38 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it might be y-axis fuckery, but nah their stock has actually tanked.

[–] violentfart@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It’s still misleading; overall it’s back to a “normal” trajectory.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 hours ago

Receding value does still pose massive problems for a company, between reputation cost and massively reallocating funds they hoped to use. overextension isn’t unusual and the implosion can be terrifying. Hence oracle’s 30000 personnel cuts. Personally, I hope they die horribly. Fuck oracle.

[–] raicon@lemmy.world 43 points 5 hours ago

Good, fuck them.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 17 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

That reminds me. I've been abusing their free tier. Need to line something else up to replace them for when they finish collapsing.

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm not too knowledgeable on Oracle. What do they actually do? Where does all that money come from? It just looks like they're trading in personal data from my POV.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 1 points 14 minutes ago

A lot of enterprise software and cloud computing mostly. They've got logistics software, HR software, management software, database software, etc. Then they've got the Oracle cloud with a suite of services.

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I guess I'm lucky they never let me sign up with a Proton email because it was "suspicious" and went with a cheap ovh droplet instead.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

I did it back when I had zero dollars and lots of time. Probably stand up my own box now. I honestly don't need much since I don't host game servers or anything anymore, just a discord bot.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Don't link images from Reddit. They do some fuckery where they redirect from the bare file to an HTML page containing it.

Just straight-up steal the image and re-upload it to Lemmy instead, like this (hidden in a spoiler tag in this case because WTF):

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 points 47 minutes ago

Ugh, even when I no longer go there, they still manage to piss me off. Still, siphoning pennies from them with image hosting costs outweighs my minor annoyance. Self hosting is costly

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

JESUS CHRIST, A LITTLE WARNING NEXT TIME?!

I totally though it'd be the image of the white techbro-lookin dude with tears in his eyes.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I wish we were still at the point where they might look vaguely human. No, they’ve long since morphed into a living pestilence in both body and mind. Just one more county in middle America, bro.

[–] Brummbaer@pawb.social 6 points 3 hours ago

Don't give me hope.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 6 points 4 hours ago

I haven't drank in a while, but I'll get loose as a goose if I get to dance over Oracle's grave.

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 3 points 5 hours ago